Ry Cooder Quotes

Some things I like to do better than other things, but I've got to say that in the end, the thing that makes it the most interesting for me is who you're with, you know? It's people that make the difference in just about any field, right?

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• I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in 'We, the people.'

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • Me
  • Decision

• I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get that, and go for the simple songs, but I prefer something a bit more complicated, which is more meaningful to the creator.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • People
  • Great
  • Simple

• I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult finding the right roles. It's been an interesting ride as far as my career pendulum is concerned.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Trying
  • Career
  • Interesting

• I like talking one-on-one to everyone. I find it really sort of cathartic and interesting to hear people's opinions.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Find

• If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Fight

• I was born in Bradford, a city in the north of England that God forgot about. A place where most people never leave, but if they do, they certainly never go back.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • People
  • God
  • City

• People will turn their noses up at a sequel or that type of thing, but Pixar really works hard - if they're making a sequel - to make a sequel an original movie, to make it an original story.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • People
  • Up
  • Movie

• I'm not an isolated person. The more I connect to people, the more I have the feeling that things work.

  

  Raf Simons
  • People
  • Work
  • Feeling

• I wish people would be a bit more aware of how their actions affect everyone around them.

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • People
  • Wish
  • Everyone

• In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough. But today that is not enough. People want more.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • Today
  • Party

• I know what people laugh at. I know their vocabulary.

  

  Gallagher
  • People
  • Know
  • Laugh

• What these guys are doing is great for Argentinean tennis. This is motivating other people.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • People
  • Great
  • Doing

• I try genuinely, when I'm playing a character, to not judge them and just to inhabit someone as how one sees them. That being said, you also want to make sure that you don't blur the edges of people too much because humans are naughty and complicated beings.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Character
  • Judge

• I cherished the dream of a country embracing all its people.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • People
  • Country
  • Dream

• But he knew people and he was head writer for Have Gun Will Travel, and if you took those early Star Treks that we did and put us in a western wardrobe and put us on wagon train going west, we can say the same lines.

  

  Majel Barrett
  • People
  • Star
  • Travel

• I'm at peace with myself. The main thing is not letting people dictate what I do or what I am.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Peace
  • Myself

• There are two ways of knowing if something ends badly: If you're honest with yourself, you just kind of know it. And then there's other people's reaction to it.

  

  Vince Gilligan
  • People
  • Know
  • Yourself

• A lot of people are living in a dream world - they want to deny that aging occurs or believe it doesn't have to occur. They'll hold on to this belief until the moment they die. The reality will eventually hit them.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• When I graduated high school, I bought a guitar and, at first, didn't really think I'd get into the songwriting thing as much as I did. But after learning a few songs of other people's to play on the guitar, I got bored with that and just started writing songs on my own, and that's kinda how it came about.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Writing
  • School

• Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Truths
  • Conduct

• I've met real female NCIS agents who were smaller than I am. They were very petite.

  

  Daniela Ruah
  • Real

• As a kid, I really wasn't thinkin' about no golf.

  

  Boo Weekley
  • Golf

• I've played good guys for most of my career, and when I came out to California, I thought, 'I really would like to find some wonderfully intelligent bad guy to play.'

  

  Joe Morton
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Guy

• Some things I like to do better than other things, but I've got to say that in the end, the thing that makes it the most interesting for me is who you're with, you know? It's people that make the difference in just about any field, right?

  

  Ry Cooder Buena Vista Social Club
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Differences